BBC Play of the Month: Season 10
Season 10 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of BBC Play of the Month Season 9.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 10 Progress Shield
The Linden Tree
Sep 8, 1974
In 1947 England, in the home of Professor Robert Linden, chair of modern history at the provincial University of Burmanley, rationing and austerity seem to have fostered opportunis
Electra
Oct 24, 1974
In the city of Mycenae, a few years after the Trojan War, a bitter struggle for justice is undertaken by Electra and her brother Orestes for the murder of their father Agamemnon by
The Wood Demon
Oct 17, 1974 · 110 min
A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hel
Robinson Crusoe
Nov 29, 1974 · 120 min
An English slave trader is marooned on a remote tropical island, forced to fend for himself and deal with crushing loneliness.
The Apple Cart
Jan 19, 1975 · 115 min
King Magnus's position as monarch is in danger – can he 'upset the apple cart' and preserve his throne?
The School for Scandal
Feb 16, 1975
Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.
King Lear
Mar 23, 1975
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Strife
May 18, 1975
A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company.